-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, 2009-03-18 at 13:29 -0400, John E. Perry wrote:
Hm. I routinely keep half a dozen applications open on my xp pro boxes with no bad effects. And I limit that because the twits at Microsoft aren't sophisticated enough to give us multiple desktops; it's just too much trouble to find more apps on a single desktop. So I really can't say anything more about xp's abilities.
Yes, I also open a lot of apps in windows, too, but it is a nuisance to have them all on the same desktop. The limit is the human rather than resources (if it doesn't crash).
I have only 6 desktops configured on my opensuse 11.0 laptop, which allows me to keep (at the moment only) 20 instances of 8 applications open. Usually it's more, but I rebooted a few days ago and haven't reopened all my OOo documents yet.
Try hybernting: I power off the computer, and when I come back all apps are opened in place.
PS: ksensors says I have only 796M of my 2G ram in use, and 676M of my 2G swap in use. Why should any swap be in use?
Contrary to what many think, having swap in use when there is free memory is a good thing. Why? Because that way you have more memory free. Try this: note how much memory is in use (for example, from the top of "top"). Then hibernate (suspend to disk), and restore: you will see that the swap used increases. It means that many things that were in memory are not needed really, so they remain in swap. The end result is that you have more free memory. In your case, it may be that at some point the system needed a lot of memory. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAknBeIMACgkQtTMYHG2NR9XpUwCdGL/7NovDKQVCnEI+rfh+xCz2 RB0An2QA4krrTFcaXXxytu5RogpOuz1M =kDVn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org